The wonderful Cell phone

[ozark]

Although there are still a few areas where a cell phone doesn't work for the most part it provides communications with the outside world for the outdoors adventurers.
Because of our age and health my wife and I like to keep a close check on each other. I know she worries about me when I go to hunt or watch alone. When I get there I call and tell her I am set up and all is well. Should I be needed at home she can contact me and I can get help to her from where I am located. Ambulance, police etc.
If I should have vehicle problems. kill a deer and need help I have prearranged that and notification is just a speed dial away.
Our vehicle has OnStar and that can also be a great help. One time our daughter and Son-In-Law took a wrong road and we got worried after they were over an hour later than expected arrival time. I called OnStar and asked them to check our vehicle out. They called my car and after insuring that it was indeed my daughter who answered they told them that we were worried and needed information. My daughter told them that she expected to be home in fifteen minutes and all was ok. Our phone rang and we were informed. All in less than five minutes.
I think sometimes we take modern technology for granted and don't appreciate the comfort of knowing that what we need is usually at the little gadget we carry in our pockets. If it gets better let the old man know. Ozark

[edge]

We run 2 shifts 4 Monday thru Thursday and 1 Day shift on Fridays. Due to low demand we are shutting down at 3PM on Friday.
Last Friday I follow the last of the hourly employees out at about 3:15 and jump on the Garden State Parkway northbound ( State Trooper Heaven, or The Corzine money exchange ).

I get about 20 miles into my trip when I realize that I left my cellphone on my desk at work! If I did not plan on hunting I probably would have continued on my way, but now in my mid fifties and a solitary hunter I feel that if I don't have my cell that I may have forgotten my underwear

Now, southbound traffic is not the same as northbound...noooo! I normally can drive merrily along at speed limit ( plus )
Southbound traffic goes 60..then 5...then 30...then 20... then 50

So now what took 25 minutes takes almost 40 minutes and then I am only back at work!

It is very funny, something that nobody had 25 years ago, now nobody can live without!

edge.

PS Corzine is a s.........

[wilmsmeyer]

Communication rules!!

[ozark]

Jan 23, 2009 21:21:16 GMT -5 wilmsmeyer said:

Communication rules!!

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[wilmsmeyer]

I mean..instant communication is great. Peice of mind.

[youp50]

Two tears ago I received a call from my youngest on the opening day of deer season. "Dad, I can't find my blind" After some thought I asked him to shoot one time. The shot was immediately heard over the open line and some several seconds later I had a fix on him. Like a typical youngster he had made a wrong turn and kept going. I was able to redirect him to his pop up blind and he arrived just in time to kill a buck.

I use mine when I am hanging tree stands. I will call upon leaving the ground and again on my return. Peace of mind for me and my wife.

The dark side of cell phones is the current text message contest a couple of buddies and I are engaged in. The winner gets the others to laugh out loud while hunting. No profanity and all messages must be answered. The only exception to the answering rule is when game is down. I turn my phone buzz and ring off and check for time and messages throughout the day. Really nice to keep track of my Dad and another hunter with some physical problems.

Like several others on the board, I watched Star Trek growing up. The flip open communicators are here.

[whyohe]

ozark, think back to when you where a child and what was thought of as technology then and what that item is now. how far we have come in such a short time. our cell phones can also be GPSs and are as small as a credit card in some cases and can take pics. when my dad first got a cell phone in the 80s it was almost the size of a 8" cinderblock and almost as heavy ;D. it didnt have the reception or the distance of the ones today. when hunting by my self it is a must to have it on me & CHARGED . got yelled at for that once! they are a wonderful thing that i think we all take for advantage and when we loose it or forget it we are almost lost without it. but not so long ago we didnt even know what one was. now some use them as primary phone no land lines at all!

[deadeye]

they are spousal gps's,i find most people here abuse the usage,i do like instant communication i need which is rare,i leave mine on the kitchen counter in my free time now(got out of cell phone prison) . yes i even got interupted so many times on the gun range i could not even enjoy that & if you only knew what the younger generation is using those for

[jims]

On occasion I will use my wife's. I do not have one and do not want one. I get enough late night calls, weekend calls because of work I really try when I can to be unavailable. I have even been physically tracked down when I am at my farm which is nearly one hour from my place of work. Oh well, at least I have a job yet so no real complaints.

[chuck41]

I have two stands. In one my cel phone works as long as I am up in the stand, but worthless on the ground. On the other it is always worthless.

Now after seeing these posts I may have to move that second stand to a higher location where the phone will work.